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North Korea Faked Footage Of ‘Successful’ Ballistic Missile Launch, Experts Claim

North Korea has been sounding alarms since it withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 2003.

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The talks came two days after South Korean President Park Geun-Hye urged China to step up to the plate and support genuinely punitive sanctions that would help bring Pyongyang to heel. After the shots were fired, the drone went back to the North Korea.

North Korea says it exploded a hydrogen bomb on Wednesday of last week, although the United States and experts doubt that the weapon was as advanced as that.

North Korea has previously sent rudimentary drones to the north/south border, or Demilitarized Zone, though they have yet to ever attack South Korean soldiers.

Head of the Korea and Mongolia Section at the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Vorontsov said that North Korea “is now thinking less about denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula but increasingly more about strengthening its deterrence capabilities”.

It said North Korean scientists and technicians “are in high spirit to detonate H-bombs… capable of wiping out the whole territory of the USA all at once as it persistently moves to stifle the DPRK”. The country’s new leader, Kim Jong-Un, has made plain his aims to strut the world stage by throwing detente in the wastebasket and marching the country’s nuclear-weapons program forward.

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South Korea’s defence ministry said on Thursday it was preparing to install the old electronic bulletin boards which media said were last used in 2004.

“I hope the Chinese authorities agree with us that we simply can not take the business-as-usual approach to this latest provocation”.

The diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because consultations have been private, said all 15 council members agree that North Korea should be denuclearized, and this will be reflected in a new resolution.

Without the cooperation of China, North Korea’s key economic supporter, sanctions will have limited impact.

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Collaboration in fields like regional security and military exchanges is also being discussed, according to the Defense Ministry.

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